QUETTA: At least five paramilitary troops were killed and one was injured when a roadside blast targeted a security forces convoy in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, a police official said on Monday.
The blast occurred in Narhan, a mountainous area located some 65 kilometers from Balocistan’s Dukki city, when the convoy was returning from a poppy cultivation site, according to Dukki Superintendent of Police (SP) Mansoor Buzdar.
The security convoy comprised members of the Frontier Corps (FC) paramilitary force, Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF), Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) and police.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, but ethnic Baloch separatists and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have often targeted Pakistani forces in the region.
“Five soldiers of the FC paramilitary force were killed in the latest targeted blast while one received injuries,” Buzdar told Arab News. “Security forces have cordoned off the area while the bodies are being shifted to Dukki.”
